At This Table, We Remember.

On the Thursday before Memorial Day, Prim sets the strategy talk aside for a moment. This issue gathers the community around what the weekend asks of us: how to acknowledge the day at your Thursday game without theater, the women whose service is inseparable from the game they love, and the wartime mahjong circles that held a generation together through the 1940s and into the VA hospital wards. Strategy still gets its hour, in a quietly unconventional Crak the Card on the hand that cannot close, and the discipline of finishing the game with honor anyway. Subscribe at https://www.orderofthetile.com.